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i! ,e rn nge anomaly, that the Coreieeioncrs etierti k sional eraploymente there were still enough remain. rept; etiould have the power of summoning a bank- ing- unoccupied and pt.ifealv.compett ot to ti4;fil the". eehen: a prieoitere_ in a triesne process, and not duties of the impoi taut trust with which they ere wben ,iteexecution. Several instances had recently, vested. fie cordially approved of the pi of . 4icArred - in which the ineonvenieoce and absurdity •, the Bill before the . ,l-lonse, ;!ilihouilil lie tnigelit , per- dtstikltiOn - were manifosted. The Commis- hales take the Opportunity, when in the‘'Coniniiitee, siuners received but twenty shillings for their trtiu- of, sating his objeetioes to some or the dehilltt of it, ble on each sitting, - and yet -it Was freqUently np-„' .and earticularly to the great extension of power wlCch e:essary, .if they ch their duty ; that they it proposed to grant to the Chancellor. should go to a comiLler6le cliganc6 in the country for ! Sir SAMUEL noMILLy expressed his obligations thet puree: . In some cases which had lately oc- to the Hon. - Gentlemen who had stared their opi eurred,, , Commivioners, owing to this absurdity, pion; on the subjeat. Having neobjeet but to hu lled beerecompelled.to go as far as Hull. Not did ! prove thelaw, he was anxious to hear, with the ut it to him seem proper that the. Commissioners of , tnost attention,, .every suggestion that could be, made Bankrupts should be permitted, to cloaecetbeir lists, far that purpoii. He assured' the floto,e, that since or in other words to adjourn. for a long piried : the he. bad introduced the Bill into Patliarnent,'' he had consequence of which was frequently great' leenn- been honoured with so many communications on the vebience to all parties. iTe trusted that in the Coni- subjeel, that it` would have occupied the whole of mittee a clause would be proposed to ,renedy this his time, even .to return' his acknowledgments to evil.: - He was desirous, also, if it were possible, to those be` i/ion) they were made. He shonldehave reform the indecorous manner :in which commissions several alterations to propose in the Bill ; one which were held in the metropolis, ailaing-from the pooe he was gl,id to feel would obviate an ()hie: lion made rare at which ae Contniesioriers were , paid. , In !, by the Hen. Gentlernati opposi,e ; another which ieetsequence of.their only 'receiving a poond or a gui- would tend 'to carry still further the remedy against net a sitting, they were indtked to cro , kd together t the evil which, at present- resulted from the practice it 'number of commissions, and 'to render Guildhall of assignees keeping in their own halals the property more like a bear-gated n than a place of judiciel in- of batekrtipts, speculating with that ,property, and quirt. two of die provisions in thee: Bill proposed" eventually becoming betilerupts themselves,. Fur by the Learned Bart. he objected; becatee they this latter purpose he meant to propose a clause, seemed to cast ti :Asir upon; or to throw into the back enacting, that if any assignee should become a batik ground the utility of trial by Jury. At present the rupt, while he was indebted above a hundred pounds creditors of a B . an krupt I)ad the choice of assailing f to the estate of the bankrupt to whom he was an the Assignees either by a petition to the Chancellor, f assignee, the certificate of that assignee, so become or by a suit at common law.. By'tho.Bill before the a bankrupt, should not secure his subsequently ace House they would be preclu4ed from the latter quired property from a demand to the toll amount. course, and this he Conceived to be agreat attack on of hi debt, to the original bankrupt's estate. The the trial by Jury, although he was convinced that Hon. Gentleman opposite had.expressed great ap the Leareed Baronet was one of the last men who y prehension lest the. importance and advantages of would really entertain such an intention. The the trial . by Jury should be lessened by the proposed Other provision in the propo-ed Bill to which be ob. measure. ,He did itot entertain any such tears.-- jeeted had a similar tendency ; it was that by which ,The faf.t was, that in the cases alluded fo, the trial, a penalty of 201, per cent- was to be intliaed on as- wata met 'matter of form ; and the object , of hie bieuees who made use of a bankrupt's properly,. Th e propositions was to prevent twenty attions, where erbjett of the Learned Baronet in ibis provision, it cue petition might attain thesatne end. The present was impteeible not hiehly to applaud, however he mode et,proceeding seemed to him calculated solely might differ from him with respecl to the mode of for the increase of expellee. With respett to the recovering the penalty. He doubted whether any Bill on this eebleti, that had been trirmerlyi,itetro- Britiele subject ought to be placed at the will of Com- duced into the other Hours, with every setae - dent missioners of Bankrupts, and precluded from a re. of respect for the Noble Lord, by whom it had teen sea to a trial by jury: It was well known that it) introduced, and for the Learned Authority in whom: Landon the Commissioners of Bankrupts were men it was known to have originated, he confessed that of high and honourable charaCter, bum it was not al- he could,net age any thing in that Bill but a great ways so in the country. The Eetitioning 'creditor multiplitity of expense, .and a !peat auginettenton frequently :. nominated his own Unthmiesioner„and of patronage. If, however,' there were .airy-liars-of yeey mit - air juggles were often carded on by that that Bill fur which the Hone Gentletnnu..enterteined means. He cotitessed that he did not think the a partiality, it would be perlettly Competent to him i etet e ee d ationees Bill respelling this penalty of tot. to prepose a modification of the present iueasutes, per cent. (the Justice of which he most hiapy a p e when it should be in ti.e Cottunittee„ !Unqueittion , pleucied) comparable to, the prpvision or, a similar ably there were many! detects in the system' of nature, comanted in the Bill which had some time Bankropt Laws to which the Bill that he had had the ago been introduced by 'a Noble Lard into the ((Wier honour of introducing did not .extenJ. fie had fieuee of Parliament.-- , There was one . pa r t 'ot the never professed to remove all those 'dcfeets. He teethed Baronet's Bill to 'which be dietially ob. had not sufficient Knight Errantry for such an at tempt.. While therefore, he allowed with another jeCted ; ataneely, to the power which it 'proposed to give to the Chancellor to liberate a benkrupt pith- Hon. Gentleman, that it might be better if, instead put the consent of his creditors. In his'opinton such 01 'lie present loose and eXtelideil systko, a per. a reeulation would tend only to increase the number wanent and limited tribunal establiShed for of benkrupts. . It had been stated, and stated fairly, 11,0 odrilloistration' of . the Bankrupt Laws, he as. course of twee! 1 , 7 1 , 1 b eet% sulen- him that he had nut the ~.it)11 to offer , , in make so considerable an ;die eee the Presuot tainect their certific“ies. But it i . ‘:lll,illl , ,:ii w ' ' • aske k l, bow many hod spplied for tbeircertificittei? —lt was a fat abo of Arest importauce, imd which ought to be.generally "(flown, that out of the large number of 'a,6o7..uncertificated bankrupts, only . 13 .were at . present in the King'S Bench, inonsequence of executions. He put it to the noose whether . , when the evil was comparatively, so small, it was .uccessary to make so considerable an - innovation s on our let islatiri provisions on the subjea, and one whiCia, in his apprehen;ion, might be attended with very: serious evils, Mr. PUNtiONBY commented on the inconsistency •01, the Hon; G'en m tleon kid just spoken, who biviog'cottunenLed by ex pressing a favourable Opi nkoit ~of his Learnmi. Friend's measure, set dowitt tvith describinB it one of an itijorious tehdency., Thei Hon. 6enti.:man had certainly professed him belt' at one tiine ti . iend to the piinciple pf the Bill. if lie was netu o ily Itietitlly to the principle of the till, the court u filch it watt obviously y.potlieht fur Uiu to pursue was not, to Oppose ..he second read:- ing of it, ..1)61 to a:low it. to go into Cointnittee, and there io proi r obv any motliticatit as of that prin- ILA io him, seem advisobl. For his 0 \%;:s verfealy COrivitleed It ar them %cis brooch laws 'ot: this country st - 9d need of regul..tion and au:endmeut Bookruig Latys, and he should the ietore give his heat ty "oshent to his Leartied Frie6d r, alo ; Sion. Mr:.TAcor., in explanation, diiclaimed rtn , inten tion of ()pp/sit% the bet ontl ictaling of the Biti.-- The Eton., Gtlttle 1 , 3 ntan 01‘1 . m ruppreheticieti him if supposyd . that,'Lly ifiS obb,..rvailorts, he:net - 4'a any t olore.ii,'#ut Lo St.v?ebi to the consideration if the Lt.artied Beronet awL of the F1044C, bciaiejcir curmitglite§ witich, it h . f.s:opintoti,' were cif:import- Ikanaciaomaitt vas persuaded, ttl.l 'ivai inure painful' than that of a Coin mistioner of tclankrupt.. Commissioners. of 13ank rupt I,k4fe gi,:rlCl44 y oalig B.irri'stprs, qnsliAed for that situation, but vi ho,conneded with that ob it.ct ridvancement in ;heir pioteanon, and ,to whom, therefore, thearlininistrationbf the Baillirn'pr Laws f,bou became a second:try cansidertition. Pressed by their professional avocations, they 'were compelled to crowd into one day a number of cases ero- . nobly required great deliberation, in his opinion. the Commissioners of Bankrupt should be r distinct Ci;isS; to Whom' suilirk;at emoluments and advan rages ought to' be }held i eld out, to stducts them to devote - their exclusive attention to a subj e ct whi c h , in a commercial 6opwry like Great Britain, is as of 'such extreme importance.. If, instead of 75 Commis isioners,' tht", dumber - were reduced to tie e, ;;Bout •• tony . idditionai expellee to the public, the .objeti more effeaually accomplished. ° Mt. 'WlosoN . could not agree with the Kumar. able Gentleman - who bad jun' sprlken, as to tl,t; ex -I)edi'ency of mikini such an itermiou ic, ii, f; general 'adinitii,stration of the-13;..nkrupt 1.4 , 45, as her seemed to think 4%41.11,41 i . liv ...flowed that the CoMmis slot-lets were generally made from junior Barristers, he;•cunten‘led, that It sn extensive a procession as that of the law, although many mig:it 40011 ob iti'the due reward of their talents by great proLs- W:la }lien re 34 a second time, and or dered to be voitlmittbd on Ains day fortnight.. Lord ,CAS TA .saR A C I I . p r e sen t e d . an extract from the last dispatch of Sir John Moore, which wad Or dered to be printed. A short conversation arose,' in which the Chancel,- . bor of the Exchequer, the Speaker, Newport, an d Ni r . R a mie% participated', with respect to the expence that would attend cal tying itacketfect the Order made by the house in an early part of the evening,fot printing thelast Iteport of the Corrimii 'siOners of Naval Revision: It was, at length tenni .natcd by .the Speaker 04 irregular. Mr.'HvsKtssox presented an-AcCOnnt of the Ex traordinary' Expenees of the Army, which was or dered to be primed. The CHANCELLoa of 'the EXCHRQUER gave no tice, that,to-morrow lie would move that the House should at its rising adjourn to '1 6L;scitty se`ninght. Adjourned. FOREIGN INTEI,I,IGINCE. (PROM THE GERMAN PAPERS.) BANKS (IV EL4K,' AtACCII 'ihe ac counts received trout Upper Germany tend to con tra] the general orinion, that a war bet wr.en Austria .and Franre'will,certainly take plate. Vienna Court Gazettes have lately iiot been delNered in Lower Get many. All the IFten - ch and Dutch troops still at Ham burgh are, to March in a few days for "U pper Ger i many, and all the. French infantry that remained be hind have broken up this morning, The Prince of 'Ponta COMihas acquainted , ihe Senate, that he sets out for Hanover in a foi , days to organize an army tLere,:but that he will soon return. The . DUtch, it is said, , will speedily make an expe. • chtiea..iusso.thaireoasts probably With thu Texel and 'Fiaihing squidrona. His PruSSian Majesty will not, it is , said, return 'to gerlin under the present circumstances. It is confidently reported, that 'two strong Russian armies are stationed, one on the frontiers of .Russia, and another on these of Gallicia and Hungary. Hopes are "entertained that the Emperor Alexander will net ad against Austria, but rather remain neutral. BANxs OP Tiig .MAINE, MAUCH' 7.--M. Von Ganz is expected at Vienna, , where a work, .en titled " Observations of an Austrian Panioti" bas:. been published. WARSAW, MARCH 60—According to the last a& viewtrom GaMae, the Austrirs continue with gseat activity tbOr prep teat for war in that coon try, - Many horses belonging to the inhabitants of thatc:country hav e alreadybeen taken in requisition for militiry transports. Every thing is conveyed thr6ugh The'exchan,, , e of couriers is still very ael i ye.— ((,onwponden ten) ' MAGni. , ..itniGH;Nisuon 14.---In the morning of, the !Val instant, the French troops ann. !lily,: toy some time-post been titiartered in this city, rind corn pose (,general Morand's divisiOn, received orders to `break np. 'file cavalry °rifle 301 regin)ent of in-: Pantry of the line left this city the same afternoon; and yesterday the'6iBt regiment of foot also march ed. The 65th i regiment of intintry is an and waits the arrival of one or more French iegi meets which are exliet - ted here on The .2 t st, when they will march to Saxony the n e xt day. The works in the Arsenal here are carried oh with the. utmost ritivaTa LETTER. BANKS or THE ELBE, MARCH W.—Preparations for war contiiine. This'" day n ariy riirnOurs were preiralent, such as the Austrian array having anually entered SaxOny and Bavaria, and Russia's refusing to • , assist France Against the Emperor FRANCIS H. An Austrian of quality who has just returned from a jburney . to Paris, reports, that the French Cavalry has suffered very severely in Spain, by an epidemic disease, and most of the corps have lost the whole of their horses. - In Paris the want of a circulating medium - was "felt in the most severe manner, and the appearance uf , a new war created great displea sure in .the minds of the major 'part of the commu nity, 'particularly 'of the tradespeople,' such as jew ellers, Whose tusines4 was ' Neither the 'last Petersburgh Gazette, nor those of Vienna, have yet arrived. DRESDEN, MARCH 3.--The King has 'appointed the Aube. Counlellor MhIiCOLINA his Cabinet . , Yesterday the ed FienchiChasseurs passed through this city, -and' wits Ittprtered in LI,: ileighbouring • villages. Our apprehensions respecting the:breaking out of hostilities in our neighbortrhood begin to decrease, though preparations of war of r every kind MU made with the utmost activity. AUGSBURGII, MARCH 6.—At 'four o'clock this morning his Excellency . General ANDREOSSI, who Wili•litt hen° stationed as French Ambassador at Vienna, passed through this city fur Paris. The halting of the Bavarian troops has not been of long duration. This day the garrison of Ulm ar rived near this city, and passed to Leach, after be ibg mustered by Generals OvntNow,antl VON Wasps. .MAitc,it 14.--Tha arsenals of Ingolstadt and Mu-, nich are emptying, and the contents lodging in she atsenat of this City. The Bavarian regiments under orders to march.here, have received contrary orders. The infantry of Oudenot's corps that wig in Lands berg is returned hither; and broke up for Neuburgb, on the Danube. All the sick of the same corps are removed hither. • ' FROM THE MEIN, MAncit 7.--Thu corps of the 0 Grand Duke of DARMSTADT has received orders to march, anti goes in columns to-morrow to.ikogs,. burgh. • • 1u dist-course of the pre urit. month a great num ber of French troops are e):pLetri.l from • France.. Yaiterday a large quantity of uniforms, for the use. al the k'rench army . coming from Mentz, passed through Frankfort. The burden of 'buying soldiers billetrd'on diem is now made gaud in .the villagers in Bavaria, bribe Ct,rcle eollectivUly. LIANOVEtt, Nip ava 10.--NAS we are intortned, all the .French troops belonging to the army ut the Rhine, stationed its the Luuntry, gradually break up for the Rhine.. HANOVER, MARCO I'd.—The General of Division Count Sr. SOLT , ' v, has ienitivevl. his head-quarters from Veftlet) to Cette, 'the fourreginients of col: . raisiers remaining here, under' , his oßturs will collki there, and in the neighbou - rhooti.. .!Yesterday morn ing the 2d regiment of carbineers broke tip tur Er langen.. This morning • the tour lemaining outs pitssect through hely, belonging to the Division of General ST. GERMAIN. MaitCkl.l3.-.This morning a Couriej brought ordars fur the troops in this country to breakup. In consequtuce; the ftsth of ..the Line. breaks up to: morrow, and; the sib on the tub, by Hameln, Pyrmont, &c. along the Weser, w Cassel. This evening the Citizens are to mount guard. The cavalry that has _been quartered here has broken nix. One regiment of Cuirassiers is to re. main in garrison. : - General PETIT arrived some days ago (rain Hameln. MARCH 14.—Yesterday morning the 12th Regi ment 'of •Curessiers, and the 26th Regiment of In fantry of the Lin©, marched from hence to Gotha, &c. The troops yesterday received their arrears of • pay. 7 VIENNA, MARCH 4.—Last Sunday his Excel lency the French Ambassador, General ,ANDRSOSSI, took his leave of his Imperial Majesty, in a private audience. The Tuesday before his departure, he dined at Count STADIAN . B, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and early on the nett day .set out on his journey for Faris. . Before his departure he introduced Mons. DAU DAN, as Charge d'Affaires, who has remained at Vienna, with all the rest of the Embassy, His Imperial Highness the Archduke JOHN, to whom the Emperor granted, last summer, the corn- mand of the Reserves - in Styria, Carinthea, Car- viola, and the Lettora'e, has left this place with a numerous retinue,' to review the troops. The Prince g es to Laybacl►. The superb ftegiCnent of Kinee &Rant, - of Sate Tespen, passed through this city tl'e day I a fore yesterday. Count ESTERRO, the Westphalian : Ambgsador, is arrived here. The Empress is not quite recovered... Vesucts, Faa. 21.—The Russian Fleet in our Poet is preparing to set sail; the Venetians arc not pleasect on. this account, for the Officers and seamen, who are'well and punetually paid, cause the circula tion of much ready cash. The Officers, owing to their genteel deportment, have free admission to the best houses, and aresvelcomed whir pleasure. Never .a.week passes without their giving balls or suppers on board their Ships, to the Venetians. ST. PRTEREURGH, Fin. 18.—In Finland we learn a Diet will be 'held 'next 'month, where his Imperial Majesty shall, be [Assent in person. M. Morays will, it is said, he the Chancellor of this Diet.--'-the same who was latterly. r aussian Atubass3- dor in Stockholm. The Government and ' stration of Finland is to remain as it has beau, un der the Swedish Government; The . .k.,typeror's Ad jutant•Scustmkunto is already gone to Finland, and M. ALOPEUS will set Out in a short dint'. :CASSEL, Mstion day the first battalion of guards cbasseurs breaks up from' hence for Mentz. -Tilt Xing has given to the Museum of Gottingen the curiosii,:ea he colleCted on his voyages,: Plrfic u * larly in Atuerica : duplicates of the collettious of 1150 celebrated Captain COOK'S companion of voyages (FonsTza) are also there, The division of the Westphalian contingent that marched is at present at Lyons, The first Westphalian regiment of foot marched . yesterday, probably to Minden. . The sth and 6th regiments of foot will bp for Mad of the conscription of the preent year. . ANISTREDANI,MASCRI 14.-*Messrs. GALL PO Co. Bankers of the Emperor of Austria, have pub in the papers of this day, that owing to the low course of exchange op Vienna, the Austrian treasury bills, now 'due, - shall not be paid at prF" sent, and the publiC shall be apprized when 'hell payment shall be made., This intelligence was already known on our Exchange yesterday, and occasioned a considerable depression of the Au trian funds. After this the breakingout of anew War is still more to be dreaded. :HANI)11/1100, MARCH 14.-..0H the gib inst. there were to be burnt, at Niagdeburgh, in the Depart' ment of the Elbe, 43, intercepted and confiscated copies of the work entitled, " Occurrences in Spain from the breaking out of the troubles of Manilla, till the breaking up of the Junta, at B ar on r, bl Don farm) CrvALLos, Secretary of Stine of Da Catholic Majesty FERDINAND VIE." VIENNA. MArton 8.--This day the fine regiment of Hohenzollern Cuirassiers made its entry int° city; at the head of it was the Archduke ClulL" and Duke ALBERT...." Long live the Archduk,o CHARLES," was the constant cry of the peoPler . The above-mentioned regiment is the oldest in the present Austrian army ; it was raised in the )Rae tots, and in the year following' it.signalised its a' reer by saving the Emperor FERDjf.AND 11. This day the Archbishop consecrated in St. 51e phen's Church the Colours of the fith Battalion of ' in this place, who will march the day 00 to-rnorrow.—Our prospects Continue to becorno more warlike. ST. PETPESBUROH, MARCH 1....C0unt Nrc'a BUNUOIA DEN. General of Infantry,. is arrived hers from Finland, with adjutant .Cuunt Iltanownitsk and Chamberlain Count Boxitowoati. Tlio Minister of War, Count A. VATSCSJBIigt is gone with General BUCKAILYER. A Tribunal of-Commerce has been established•-• The Exports for Cronstadt and St. Petersburg'', las t year, amounted to 1,452,9C3 rubles, the ,hopor i P to 5,175i1fi11 • TO coRRESPONIMN I S. v.« We are vcry sorry that we nave been so long prtrivigi d from resuming the valuable Article onllVoim r t a / 1 415 CA&ItAIGh IN ITALY, but hop e t o insert part ° f a t :4°- morrow. The lively eirusions, signed C. E. E. should readily have found admission, if they had not limn written upon a jet! 'which mibt have excited disgust in every lofa t patriotic mind, and which is still eagerly cinl )l °Y 44 15 the ♦ehicle of party spirit. • • ' Asamb —1 Jamaica, /He I Waterford. a . Due—t Gottettburgh,' t MAW, tOtablits Waterfot • PRICE OP S MUCKS THIS DAY AT TWiLVIL O'CLOCK. f Cons?ls . 67. I Cons. for Ace. - •' • THE SU N. 4 SOLIII4 QULS DICIBRIL FALSUMI At:OIAT ? LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, teog. We this morning received Jamaica Papers to the 12th ult. The following is the only article of Joy , importance which they contain : " KINGSTON, FRB. 4.—Tbd,Li4y Sloop of War , Capt. Stamm arrived on Monday from Portsmeot/' I